{"id":1298,"date":"2012-11-20T19:49:46","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T19:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bournemouth.ac.uk\/etourismlab\/?p=1298"},"modified":"2012-11-20T19:49:46","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T19:49:46","slug":"vs-games-2013-5th-international-conference-on-games-and-virtual-worlds-for-serious-applications-hosted-at-bournemouth-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/etourism-lab\/2012\/11\/20\/vs-games-2013-5th-international-conference-on-games-and-virtual-worlds-for-serious-applications-hosted-at-bournemouth-university\/","title":{"rendered":"VS-Games 2013 – 5th International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications hosted at Bournemouth University"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"<\/a>\n

VS-Games 2013, the fifth outing of the International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for\u00a0Serious Applications will be hosted at Bournemouth University, UK between the 11th and the 13th of\u00a0September 2013.<\/p>\n

With the conference organized in previous years at locations such as Coventry (UK),\u00a0Braga (Portugal), Athens (Greece) and Genoa (Italy), it will take place, for 2013, at the state of the art\u00a0Kimmeridge House building of Bournemouth University, situated at the main Talbot campus of the\u00a0institution.<\/p>\n

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The development and deployment of games with a purpose beyond entertainment and with\u00a0considerable connotations with more serious aims is an exciting area with immense academic but\u00a0also commercial potential. This potential presents both immediate opportunities but also numerous\u00a0significant challenges to the interested parties involved, as a result of the relatively recent emergence\u00a0and popularity of the medium. The VS Games 2013 conference aims to address this variety of\u00a0relevant contemporary challenges that the increasingly cross-disciplinary communities involved in\u00a0serious games are currently facing. This will be achieved by, amongst other ways, the comprehensive\u00a0dissemination of successful case studies and development practices, the sharing of theories,\u00a0conceptual frameworks and methodologies and, finally, the discussion of evaluation approaches and\u00a0their resulting studies.<\/p>\n

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Call for Papers:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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For VS Games 2013 we are therefore seeking contributions from researchers, developers from the\u00a0industry, practitioners and decision-makers which aim to advance the state of the art in all of the\u00a0technologies related to serious games. The following listed topics are particularly encouraged, though\u00a0it should be mentioned that they are not the only ones of interest to VS Games 2013 and that the list\u00a0below is not exhaustive by any means:<\/div>\n
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\u2022 Game design<\/div>\n
\u2022 Virtual environments<\/div>\n
\u2022 Game-based learning methodologies<\/div>\n
\u2022 Mixed and augmented reality<\/div>\n
\u2022 Computer graphics<\/div>\n
\u2022 Gamification<\/div>\n
\u2022 Case studies\/user studies for serious games and virtual worlds<\/div>\n
\u2022 Mobile gaming<\/div>\n
\u2022 Interactive storytelling<\/div>\n
\u2022 Application areas<\/div>\n
\u2022 AI for serious games<\/div>\n
\u2022 Educational\/learning theories and their application<\/div>\n
\u2022 Visualization<\/div>\n
\u2022 Pervasive gaming<\/div>\n
\u2022 Human-computer interaction<\/div>\n
\u2022 User modeling<\/div>\n
\u2022 Alternate reality<\/div>\n
\u2022 Simulation<\/div>\n
\u2022 Platforms and tools<\/div>\n
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The following are the dates of submission for the different tracks of the VS Games 2013 conference:<\/p>\n

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\u2022\u00a0Full Papers (8 pages): 25th March 2013<\/strong><\/div>\n
\u2022\u00a0Short Papers (4 pages): 25th March 2013<\/strong><\/div>\n
\u2022 Poster Papers (2 pages): 25th March 2013<\/strong><\/div>\n
\u2022 Call for Workshops: 25th March 2013<\/strong><\/div>\n
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The best authors will be invited to write an extended version of their paper for inclusion in the IGI Global’s International Journal of Game-Based Learning<\/a>. Further proceedings and other journal special issue details for the VS Games 2013 publications are being finalised and will be announced as soon as possible.<\/p>\n

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For further information please visit the conference website: http:\/\/www.vsgames2013.org\/<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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